Eli Roth Quotes

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

Humor has the tendency to be funny once. If I tell you a joke, we're going to have a big laugh. But the second time I tell the joke, it's going to be a bit strange, and the third time you're going to ask if there's something wrong with me. So I am very cautious with jokes, but there is a lightness in my work.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I do love jokes.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I wish I had a funny story.

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

I never told a joke in my life.